This work addresses the maneuvering target localization problem with measurements of bistatic range (BR), bistatic range rate (BRR) and derivative of bistatic range rate (DBRR) from a distributed multiple input multiple output (MIMO) radar. To achieve high robustness to outliers, we adopt an ℓ1 norm based approach, and formulate a least absolute deviation (LAD) problem with heterogeneous measurements for jointly estimating target motion parameters of position, velocity and acceleration. Then we